TEEN WOUNDED WHEN FISTFIGHT LEADS TO GUNFIRE

A 15-year-old boy was shot in one leg during a scuffle in the Grant Hill neighborhood Friday morning, San Diego police said.

Witnesses reported two teenage boys or young men in a fistfight at 27th and J streets about 11:50 a.m. At least one other male may have gotten involved in the fight, then shots were fired, and two young men ran away, police said.

The shooter was described as Latino, about 18 years old, 5 feet 8 inches tall, wearing a gray sweatshirt.

The wounded teenager was taken to a hospital.

Officers surrounded a property with three houses nearby on K Street, and ordered everyone out. Six men, a woman and a girl came outside, and the adults were questioned, but no one was taken to jail, police said.

Debbi Baker • U-T

Robber in Chargers gear gets money from Kensington bank

San Diego

Chase Bank in Kensington was held up Friday afternoon by a robber dressed in a dark blue jacket with a Chargers bolt on the back, San Diego police said.

Employees at the bank branch on Adams Avenue east of Interstate 15 called police about 12:55 p.m. to report the robbery. They said a man handed over a demand note that said he had a gun, but none was seen. He was given some cash and fled.

Witnesses described him as black, 20 to 30 years old, about 5 feet 6 inches tall and 170 pounds. He was also wearing a yellow baseball cap and dark pants, and had tattoos on his fingers, police said.

Pauline Repard • U-T

Shots fired in area where 4 recent shootings left 2 dead

San Diego

San Diego police were looking for a red car after shots were fired in Valencia Park Friday morning.

Officers were called to South San Jacinto Drive and Santa Margarita Street at 11:20 a.m. after receiving a 911 call about the gunfire, police said.

Witnesses reported seeing two young men who were in an argument and then the car speeding off with someone inside firing as it drove away.

The shooter was described as black and in his 20s, wearing all dark clothes. The car was a red Chrysler with tinted windows, police said.

The area has had at least four shootings since Sunday that left two men dead and two others wounded.

Debbi Baker • U-T

Officers arrest man wanted by L.A. homicide detectives

san marcos

Sheriff’s deputies and members of the San Diego Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested a man Thursday night who was wanted by police homicide detectives in Los Angeles.

Noe Hernandez, 34, was taken into custody shortly before 7 p.m. when he was leaving a San Marcos restaurant on Twin Oaks Valley Road, San Diego County sheriff’s Lt. Jeff Maxin said.

The arrest occurred without incident, and Hernandez was later turned over to Los Angeles police.

Los Angeles police who were contacted Friday about the homicide did not provide details about the crime.

According to the Los Angeles County jail website, Hernandez was being held on $4 million ﻿bail.